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BOISE, Idaho — At a rally
on Saturday evening, Ammon
Bundy formally announced his
run for governor with a plat-
form centered on abolishing
most state taxes and claiming
federal public land for the state.
After an afternoon picnic
with “Bundy burgers” in Me-
ridian, just west of Boise, the
man from Emmett who is
banned from the Idaho State-
house grounds announced he
is running for governor to a
crowd of a few hundred people
on a platform to “Keep Idaho
Idaho.” News of his bid first
broke in May, when he filed
paperwork with the Secretary
of State’s Office.
Bundy, a far-right, mili-
tant activist who led the 2016
armed takeover of the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge near
Burns, has been arrested at
least five times since August for
protests at the Idaho Capitol
and for refusing to wear a mask
in the Ada County Court-
house. He joins a crowd of
Republican candidates nearly
a year away from the 2022 pri-
mary election that includes
Janice McGeachin, Idaho’s
Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman
A supporter of Ammon Bundy takes free campaign signs during a rally
where he announced his run for Idaho governor Saturday in Meridian.
lieutenant governor. Gov. Brad
Little has not officially declared
he will seek reelection.
On Saturday, Bundy laid out
a wide-ranging plan to overhaul
Idaho’s government. He told
supporters he wants to end “im-
moral” taxation, including “all
property tax in our state” as well
as personal income tax. In their
place, he said the state will meet
its budgetary needs by levying
only sales tax, which he said he
believes is acceptable because
people can “voluntarily” choose
what they purchase.
Bundy also proposes bring-
ing federal lands under state
control, which he says will al-
low Idahoans to “spread out”
across the state.
“I am willing to fight to the
very end to ensure that land
rights stay with those to whom
they properly belong,” he said.
To accomplish this, Bundy
told the Idaho Statesman he
would go through an “incre-
mental process” that would
involve requesting the lands
from the federal agencies that
manage them.
In his speech, Bundy said
that the affordable housing
issues in Idaho are “simply
a supply and demand issue,”
which he said would be solved
by opening up federally pro-
tected lands to agriculture and
development. He said he op-
poses dense growth.
“If we build up and create
dense and congested cities with
large populations, traffic and
pollution, we will lose our con-
servative, traditional values,”
he said.
The 45-year-old’s father,
Cliven Bundy, who is known
for a decadeslong refusal to pay
grazing fees on federal land his
cattle graze on in Nevada, also
spoke at the Saturday event in
support of his son’s candidacy.
In an interview, he told the
Statesman his son wants peo-
ple to understand “the differ-
ence between freedom and
communism” and that his son
stands for “the Ten Command-
ments and the Constitution of
the United States.”
During his speech, Ammon
Bundy mocked the practice of
stating one’s gender pronouns,
saying, “From here on out, I’m
going to identify as a man, an
American man, using he, him
and his pronouns.”
He added: “Oh, the outrage,
right? How dare I declare my
gender? … Who would have
ever thought America would
become something so ridicu-
lous?”
Bundy’s pitch for gover-
nor also includes plans to ban
abortion, repeal the state’s
health care exchange, open up
nonapproved U.S. Food and
Drug Administration drugs
for consumer use and end fi-
nancial assistance programs for
poor Idahoans, according to
his campaign website.
Much of the Western United
States is currently facing ex-
treme or exceptional drought,
which scientists have linked to
a warming climate.
But Bundy told the States-
man on Saturday that he isn’t
concerned about climate
change, despite overwhelming
evidence that average tempera-
tures are rising primarily due
to human activity.
“I’m not concerned about
climate change,” he said. “I
mean, there’s been droughts;
they come and go; you just got
to do your history.”
Chimpanzee killed at rescue to save woman
Mammoth tusk
found at Corvallis
construction site
BY PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
BY JIM DAY
Albany Democrat-Herald
For the second time in five
years a visitor from 10,000
years ago has popped up when
folks in Corvallis were digging
in the dirt.
In January 2016, remains
including an intact femur of a
woolly mammoth were uncov-
ered during Reser Stadium ex-
pansion work.
On June 15, NW Natu-
ral crews found the tusk of a
woolly mammoth at a con-
struction site on NW Ninth
Street.
NW Natural was re routing
a gas pipeline at the request of
the city of Corvallis, which will
be doing water line and storm
drain work in the area next
spring and summer.
“While performing excava-
tion work Tuesday, our crews
found something that may be
animal remnants,” said NW
Natural spokesperson Elaina
Medina. “Whenever doing this
type of work, our crews are
very careful to keep any eye out
for any type of materials they
may find while working that
could be fragile or historic.
“As is our protocol, we
stopped work immediately and
contacted the property owner,
as well as state agencies, to re-
port the discovery and to be-
gin an investigation to identify
what was found.”
The property owner, because
the work is being done in the
right of way, was the city of
Corvallis. Public Works project
manager Jeff McConnell im-
mediately reached out to Or-
egon State University’s Loren
Davis, an anthropology pro-
fessor in the College of Liberal
Arts who directs a research
group that focuses on archae-
ological sites from western
North America that date from
the Pleistocene era, more than
12,000 years ago.
Davis, with help from other
OSU researchers, played the
lead role in identifying the
Reser remains. Davis came out
to Ninth Street and confirmed
that what was i n the trench
was the tusk of another woolly
mammoth.
“It is very similar to the
Reser find,” Davis said. “The
area has the same type of clay
deposits as at Reser.”
Davis also noted that the
mammoth probably was bur-
ied in the great Missoula floods
of the Pleistocene era.
“It’s a bit of a mystery,” said
Davis about the disappearance
of the mammoth, which co ex-
isted with early humans. “The
world was changing structure
to a post-glacial one. Peo-
ple also were present. There
might have been environmen-
tal factors as well as hunting
pressure. It could be lots of
things.”
Davis said that such mam-
moth finds are not that un-
common, noting in the past
20 years or so there have been
discoveries in the Kings Valley
area of Benton County, two in
Woodburn, one in Hillsboro
and also a mastodon, a some-
what close relative to the mam-
moth, in Tualatin.
No decision has been made
regarding the ultimate status of
the tusk. NW Natural has com-
pleted its work, and the trench
has been sealed.
PENDLETON — A Uma-
tilla County sheriff’s deputy
on Sunday killed an adult
male chimpanzee at the site of
the former nonprofit named
after the primate.
Sheriff’s deputies, along
with Pendleton police and
fire, responded at about
8 a.m. to the home of Tamara
Brogoitti and her chimpanzee,
Buck, which has lived there
for around 17 years, accord-
ing to a news release from
the sheriff’s office. Brogoitti
called for help because Buck
was out of his cage and had
bit her adult daughter, who is
50, multiple times.
Brogoitti reported her
Buck Brogoitti Animal Rescue
Buck, pictured in 2015, was
killed Sunday at the rescue that
was his home for about 17 years.
daughter was trapped in
the basement bedroom and
needed immediate medical
assistance, according to the
sheriff’s office.
But to render aid to her, a
sheriff’s deputy put down the
chimp at Brogoitti’s request.
“The chimp was dispatched
by one shot to the head,” the
sheriff’s office reported.
The daughter suffered sev-
eral bites to her torso, arms
and legs, the sheriff’s office re-
ported, and medics rendered
aid and rushed her and her
mother to St. Anthony Hospi-
tal, Pendleton.
Brogoitti, from 2010 to
early 2019, operated the Buck
Brogoitti Animal Rescue at
her ranch. The nonprofit
primarily housed and cared
for horses the sheriff’s office
seized in abuse and neglect
cases.